Word: godiva
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lady Godiva. Such talk has drawn flocks of curious adults to Suffolk Downs to see what "Ole Bill," as he calls himself, has been up to since taking over six months ago. The answer, as usual, is plenty. Built in 1935 on the site of an East Boston dump, Suffolk Downs seemed to be reverting to its original state. Veeck took one look at his new property and condemned it as "a combination money machine and concentration camp...
...what happens on the track. On opening day three months ago, Veeck parlayed the current publicity for girl jockeys into a $10,000 Lady Godiva Handicap ("Eight fillies on eight fillies"). Two weeks ago, he introduced the $252,750 Yankee Gold Cup, America's richest race on grass...
...police car, an Oriental temple, a Mercedes-Benz and a hospital room. In all cases, sex is represented by a lot of thrashing around under things like sheets, feathers, snow and water. When Candy does appear unclothed, she is coyly draped by her own tresses, a la Lady Godiva...
...revelation also has its embarrassing side: Gytha's great-grandfather was none other than the cruel 11th century Earl Leofric of Coventry, who according to legend agreed to the pleas of his wife-Lady Godiva-that taxes be reduced, but only if she would ride naked through town. In the light of the new British tax hike by a latter-day Harold (Wilson), some Britons may hope that the Godiva instinct is not dead in the breast of her queenly descendant. Elizabeth, after all, is a fine horsewoman...
...recent grape jokes. (What's purple and hums? An electric grape. Why does it hum? It doesn't know the words). Another collegiate fad was the Tom Swifties, inspired by Author Edward Stratemeyer's series. "I've been looking forward to this ride," said Lady Godiva shiftlessly...